I have it, but it is young. I ordered her from Spring Hill Nursery, believe it or not, and I received a wonderful Grade 1 Weeks plant from them. This is her first growing season. Absolutely love the fragrance. Colour tends to a rich, saturated pink with lavender and blueing pink around the edges. Seems vigorous if short so far, but winter hardiness and rebound will be key. Some black spot, but not nearly as bad as expected. 

It's odd; I've taken no pictures of the blooms or plant! 

Steven

Here is my Sweet Madame Blue from Northland Rosarium

She is so tall that I am tempted to go ahead and plant her.

Thanks for enabling, everyone! Here’s my new Sweet Madame Blue. I’m looking forward to comparing notes.

DesertRose - Holy cow!! Love Song and Violet's Pride are intensely gorgeous!!! I've never seen a VP with so many blooms!! Insane! Your New Sweet Madame Blue looks really, really good! Amazing to see such a good specimen in such a small pot...you got it from a great place.

Kristine - so how did your Sweet Madame Blue do?

Sunny - look at the blooms on yours! Love!

I want one. :) :)

Yes, I bought Sweet Madame Blue from Otto and Sons—an amazing nursery. :)

Carol, I haven't seen a bloom yet but wonderful growth. Spring should see some blooms.

Kristine - I'm excited to see the blooms. :) :)

For those that have seen the blooms in person, are they more purple/lavende/blue or more pink/magenta?

I know photos can be tricky with purples and magentas lol. Its a beautiful rose regardless. I saw it in the new releases on the Edmunds site but wonder how purple/lavender/blue it actually is.

I finally have some (very late) end of season pictures of Sweet Madame Blue.

I find her colour might tend more purple if cut ahead and brought indoors (at least in autumn here) and is more of that rose madder, magenta crimson intensity outdoors, even in autumn. The second image I had to tweak to make it look accurate as to the eye seeing it, but the other photo is also eye-accurate (at least to my eyes/device combination). The indoor, edited photo was of a bloom cut just as the guard petals began to unfurl.

Steven

Thanks Steven for sharing some photos

I haven't had a bloom yet so nice to see what I have to look forward to.

Very pretty rose

Thanks Steven. So she can be purple or magenta depending on conditions. She is pretty either way.

I have a few roses that get magenta in hot weather. Munstead Wood and William Shakespeare 2000 are red in cool weather and Magenta in hot weather.

Young Lycidas is one that gets purpley in cool weather and magenta in warm weather.

I’ve been watching this rose at my local nurseries since the spring, when I saw her looking purely magenta, like Steven’s first photo. During the summer, she had a magenta heart with lavender outer petals, like Sunny’s photo. Now that it’s getting cooler, she seems be moving towards being strictly magenta again. I happen to love her particular shade of vibrant, cool, deep magenta, but if you are looking for purple/lavender/blue, you might find her to be Sweet Madame Pink. The first two photos are her summer color with the lavender outer petals, and the next two are her more recent autumn look.

Sweet Madame Blue in the spring:

Thank you Desert rose, I think that it is beautiful in all of its seasons.

Steven and Desert Rose...mmmm...looks like a wonderful rose. I'd love to find one!

Desert Rose, I love that quartered bloom!

Also, for color comparison, here’s Sweet Madame Blue (top) next to Plum Perfect (bottom). Currently, I would say Sweet Madame Blue looks ever so slightly pinker and more vibrant. Plum Perfect looks just a touch purpler and more subdued. Both are newly purchased from Otto’s and still in their 5-gallon nursery pots. At this point, Sweet Madame Blue’s heavy petaled blooms nod; she is extremely fragrant. Plum Perfect has a mild fragrance—light but definitely there. I’m already in love with both of them! I’m curious to see which one will stand up better to the dry heat once summer comes.

Gorgeous photos and cute frog, too! Young Lycidas is such a beautiful rose! I don’t think I’ve ever seen Like No Other. Thanks for sharing these photos, Jasmine.

Sultry, love the frog!

Desert Rose - extremely fragrant...oh my goodness!! I want one!! :) :) I hope the weak necks get better for you. :)

Sultry - you have always been the Queen of Frogs to me. :) :) In a nice way. :) :) Peach Swirl with 2 or 3 frogs...I'll always remember your frog pictures. Man, I love your Plum Perfect!

Thank you :)

I highly recommend Like No Other. Its always blooming here. It sort of reminds me of Celestial Night, which I was also considering at the time. I got the LNO because a few people said it was a better bloomer, more disease resistant, and lended to a little more purplish.

Another great newer rose in this color realm has been Queen of Elegance. QoE is a med-darker warm pink but the center can have terracotta tones! Sometimes the outer petals get a purplish plum tone in the right weather here. It's so unique. Also healthy here.

I know I had a bunch of photos on my phone of QoE blooms but now I can't find them anywhere! grrr.

rosecanadian, Queen of Frogs, lol! I love it :)

Also, Life's Little Pleasures is in that same color and blooms like mad. It is a shortie.

Kristine, I almost bought Life's Little Pleasures last year! It's a mini rose right?

I dont have any mini roses yet. I keep seeing so many cute ones lately. I need to get some.

I also recently saw Sultry Night newly planted at the Huntington Gardens. I know nothing about it—a new rose for 2023! How do Like No Other, Queen of Elegance and Life’s Little Pleasures fare in the heat?

Wow! Sultry Night is really pretty too. I haven't seen that one anywhere. Who is gonna be carrying it?

So if I get Sultry Night & Jasmina I'll be all set haha.

Yes, I think you might be obligated to get Sultry Night based on your name @sultry_jasmine_nights (Florida-9a-ish)! Christian Bedard bred Sultry Night, so it seems like it might be widely available at local nurseries soon. Right now, I see that Regan and Spring Hill nurseries are carrying it.

Sultry - :) :) :) I love my Queen of Elegance too! It handles rain water really well. LOL about Sultry Nights and Jasmina. :) :)

Sultry, it's kind of a given that you need Sultry Nights.

Lifes little pleasures is mini only in height. The blooms are good size.

Mine was new this year and did great so looking forward to next year. The color is like Sweet Chariot.

I photographed that quartered bloom on Sweet Madame Blue 10 days ago. It just shattered this morning. We’ve had cool weather—60 degrees and below—but I’m still impressed by how long the blooms are lasting on the bush.

So glad l ordered Sweet Madame Blue. I debated between Sweet Madame Blue and Like no other, and finally decided to get Sweet Madame Blue.

I am going to order one too. I think Sweet Madame Blue and LNO have different enough forms to justify it haha!

Like No Other (found this more recent photo) The other one had more aged/open blooms) It get quartered some times ♡

Oh geeze, I guess now I need Like No Other

I agree!!! That bloom is out of this world!!!! Oh my!

Thank you. This is the more typical LNO bloom I get here. The photo does the color no justice. It is so much more pretty & vibrant in person. I have a hard time capturing the exact color of dark pinks, magentas and even some reds on my phone camera lol.

After several days, the bloom loosens up becoming more blousy. Whenever I see her blooming, I think to myself, "Yes, she is!!" (Like No Other).

I believe Jackson& Perkins carries this rose, both grafted and own root. I saw they are also carrying the patio tree form this year.

~Sjn

ooooh! :) :)

I almost lost Sweet Madame Blue hecause I planted her in the ground too doon. I potted her ip for the summer and just put her back in the ground. Then I read yoday tat she gets to be 7ft tall Please say it isnt so.

Does anyone grow a giant beast ? I will have to move her if that id her expected height

Ok looking innto the size I am seeing 3 ft I feel better

Kristine: I’ve had my Sweet Madam Blue in the ground for 10 months, and she’s almost exactly 3’ x 3’. I bought her as a 5 gallon plant last November, and cut her back around January. She’s not a huge or rambunctious rose—very mannerly.

Also, these were the dates she is/was in bloom (ie, at least one bloom on the plant) this season: 4/24-6/6; 6/13-6/20; 6/30-7/24; 8/17-present (10/1). So she’s very bloomy!

I will say that in zone 10a, Sweet Madam Blue had her share of crispy fried blooms; I’m going to move her into an afternoon shade spot for next season. Her heat tolerance is similar, but slightly worse (maybe her darker color absorbs more heat?) than her sister seedling Violet’s Pride—totally respectable, but not outstanding. (I’m using a very high standard: the amazing Love Song is my definition of an outstanding mauve for heat tolerance!)

I’m trying to figure out a similar colored rose for Sweet Madam Blue’s afternoon sun spot that might handle the heat just a bit better … I’m thinking of trying Perfume Factory? I feel like I’ve heard good things about Queen of Elegance in the heat, but have not seen her looking well during our summers—although her mama Koko Loko can certainly handle the heat.

Thanks Desert, I just tesd somewhere that it was 7 ft tall amd I just planted it on the border so was a little freaked but had remembered it as fairly short.

Thanks for sharing your experience.

Sweet Madame Blue

Isnt she pretty!

Trish - I've got that one this spring...it's a bare root and just sitting there growing roots. :) :) Yours looks great!! What do you think of the fragrance so far?

I got one from High Country Roses this Spring . Growing now, hasn't bloomed yet .

Not extremely fragrant compared to David Austin roses.

Rats. lol

Mine hasn’t bloomed yet this season. Last season, I recall Sweet Madame Blue’s fragrance (and bloom form) being similar to her sister seedling Violet’s Pride, so quite good!

Desert Rose...that's what I'm talkin' bout!! Love to hear that. :)

Carol, you've got to grow Young Lycidas. SMB looks like a lighter form of YL, which has an incredible scent. Diane

Diane - I did try YL one year. I was too impatient with the floppy canes and got rid of it. I need to learn patience.